How This Company Has Beaten Tesla With The World’s First Autonomous Electric Truck

  • Date: 21-Apr-2021
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Middle East
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How This Company Has Beaten Tesla With The World’s First Autonomous Electric Truck

When asked which company was the first creating an autonomous electric freight truck, most people will be wrong. And when asked which company was the first creating an autonomous electric truck that is allowed to drive on a public road, most people will be wrong too. It is not Tesla, it is not Alphabet's Waymo, Uber, or Lyft, and it is not any of the big car or truck manufacturers. It is Einride (pronounced as "n-ride"), a Swedish startup that was founded in 2016. I spoke to 29-year-old, Forbes 30 Under 30 listed co-founder and CMO of Einride, Linnéa Kornehed to find out how they have done this. Founded in 2016, Einride has grown to around 100 people today, and has raised a total of $41M of funding. Nice for a startup, but totally incomparable to the many billions that all the large companies above have invested in electric and autonomous driving. And yet, it is this startup that has beaten all of them in getting its first truck on the road, or "Pod" as Einride likes to call them. As Kornehed explains, "on the day after Elon Musk announced the launch of the Tesla Semi, we already launched our